No sign-up
A workout app that
never asks who you are
No email, no password, no "continue with Google". You open Alea and you are already training. Even challenging a friend works without either of you having an account.
Why almost every fitness app wants an account
An account is rarely there for you. It is there so the workout history has somewhere to live on a server, so the subscription can follow you between devices, and so the company has an identifier to attach behaviour to. The feature you actually wanted, a workout, needs none of that.
The cost lands on you before you have seen anything. A sign-up wall in front of a free app is asking for commitment from someone who has not yet decided the thing is worth using, which is why so many installs are opened once and abandoned at the email field.
What Alea does instead
Everything lives on the phone. Your roll history, your streak, your dice configuration and your session log are written to local device storage and stay there. There is no user record because there is no server holding one.
The hard part: multiplayer without accounts
Challenging someone is where apps normally give up and demand a login. You need two identified users, a server to hold the match, and a way to notify both. Alea does it with none of those.
The challenge travels inside the link
When you send a duel, the exercises, rep counts, your time and your chosen display name are encoded into the URL itself. The person receiving it does not need an account, and does not even need the app installed to see what they have been challenged to. Nothing is uploaded, because the link is the data.
What that means in practice
- No friend requests, no usernames, no adding anyone
- The recipient opens a normal web page and sees your exact roll
- Challenges expire after 48 hours, because the timestamp is in the link
- Nobody, including us, holds a record of the match
The trade is real and worth stating: a duel exists only in the links you exchange. Anyone you send it to can see its contents, so share it with people you meant to challenge.
What you give up
Being honest about the cost is the point of a page like this. No account means no server, and no server means some things genuinely do not exist.
| You lose | Because |
|---|---|
| Cloud backup | Nothing is stored off the device |
| Syncing across phones | There is no account to sync to |
| Recovering history after uninstall | Local storage goes with the app |
| A global leaderboard | No shared server, no shared ranking |
If those matter more to you than skipping a sign-up form, a different app is the better choice, and that is a fine outcome. Alea is built for people who want to train today, not to manage an account.
Will that change if paid features arrive?
Everything the app does today stays free permanently, and using it will continue to need no account. If optional paid extras are added later, a subscriber login may exist for those extras alone. The free app, the roll and the duel loop are not going behind a sign-up.
Open it and train
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No-account workout app FAQ
Do I need an account to use Alea?
No. There is no sign-up, no email field and no password. You open the app and roll straight away.
Do I need an account to challenge a friend?
No, and neither do they. The entire challenge is encoded inside the link you send, so the recipient opens it as a normal web page and sees your exact roll. They do not even need the app installed to view it.
Where is my workout history stored?
In your phone's local storage, on that device only. It is never uploaded, so nobody holds a copy, including us.
What happens to my history if I uninstall?
It goes with the app. That is the direct trade for having no account: there is no server holding a backup to restore from.
Can I use Alea on two phones?
You can install it on both, but they will keep separate histories and separate streaks. Without an account there is nothing to sync them through.
Will you add accounts later?
Possibly for optional paid extras. Everything the app does today stays free and will continue to work without any account.